- cossack
[cossack 词源字典]
- cossack: see cassock
[cossack etymology, cossack origin, 英语词源] - Cossack (n.)
- 1590s, from Russian kozak, from Turkish kazak "adventurer, guerilla, nomad," from qaz "to wander." The same Turkic root is the source of the people-name Kazakh and the nation of Kazakhstan.